Super Jupiters Expose a Long Standing Space Mystery
One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
Astronomers discover a super-Earth that may have an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing an exoplanet and two red stars. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
The Fastest-Known Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Has Been Spotted—Now It Could Help Test Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
The fastest-moving star, S301, was discovered recently by Stefan Gillessen’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…
This Alien Planet Has Rock Clouds That Vaporize Before Sunset
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…
The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why
An international team of astrophysicists has found evidence that the universe recycles black holes, merging them to form…
Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
The dominance of turbulence over magnetism in the formation of massive star cluster seeds
Beuther, H., Kuiper, R. & Tafalla, M. Star formation from low to high mass: a comparative view. Annu.…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
Multi-viewpoint observation of a failed prominence eruption on the Sun
Priest, E. R. & Forbes, T. G. The magnetic nature of solar flares. Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 10, 313–377…
Hubble Marks 36th Anniversary with Image of Trifid Nebula
NASA celebrated Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Nears Launch for Epic Hunt Across the Universe
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could launch in 2026 and dramatically expand humanity’s view of the universe. The mission…